Hug Twice

We have a utility pole in the easement between our property and next door that has been just about ready to fall over for the entire time we’ve lived here.  When the cable company came to install our cable last year they told us about it, and called the electric company that owned the pole to fix it.  The electric company showed up that afternoon and basically stuck a few struts on it and tied it up - a temporary fix but certainly not a permanent solution.  It had been that way for about 10 months, and this past week, they finally came back to actually fix it.

Fixing it involved the electric company digging new holes and putting in entirely new poles.  At one point, they came to the door to tell me they would be turning off the power for about a half hour to move the wires to the new pole, so I came inside and turned off the computers.  That might be the first time the computers were all turned off in CJ’s entire life besides another short power outage we had a few months ago.

CJ was incredulous.  He kept clicking the button on the monitor of his computer, trying to figure out why it wasn’t on.  And he kept looking at me and saying “Mommy, it broken.”  With this sad little dejected voice.

I’ve raised a child in the digital age, and it shows.  He doesn’t use his computer all the time but when it’s gone, he’s not quite sure what to think.

Kind of like his mommy, actually.

(Note:  Matt is a computer programmer so it follows that his children have their own computer.  This was a tower we bought on eBay for $35 plus a monitor Matt already had hanging around.  Heh.) 

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